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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Aug 20, 2008 06:46
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:07:50 -0700, sirblob2 wrote:
> actually im looking for references for this in ancient greek
> philosophers. which ones of those clever chops had a nice go at it? or
> was it ruskin?
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King Lear..
O, reason not the need:
our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as
beast's:
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Lear may have said (badly):
Reason not the need but the want.
Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as
beast's, 'Tis want that makes Man's life above the dirt.
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